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I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

    Author: Alfred Schnittke
   

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

    Author: Alice Miller
   

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

    Author: Arna Bontemps
   

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

    Author: Arthur Koestler
   

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

    Author: Bill Keller
   

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

    Author: Bruce Paltrow
   

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

    Author: Burt Lancaster
   

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

    Author: Byron Nelson
   

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

    Author: Camryn Manheim
   

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

    Author: Charlie Hunnam
   

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

    Author: Chris Matthews
   

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

    Author: Coco Chanel
   

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

    Author: Dennis Bergkamp
   

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.

    Author: Donald Trump
   

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

    Author: Ed O'Neill
   

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

    Author: Edward Zwick
   

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

    Author: Emeril Lagasse
   

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

    Author: Eric Bristow
   

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

    Author: Fernando Pessoa
   

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

    Author: Geraldine Ferraro
   

There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.

    Author: Guy Forget
   

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

    Author: Helen Keller
   

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

    Author: Henry Ward Beecher
   

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

    Author: Hermann Maier
   

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

    Author: Itzhak Perlman
   

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

    Author: James MacArthur
   

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

    Author: Jay Garner
   

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

    Author: Jim Garrison
   

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

    Author: Jim McKay
   

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

    Author: John Blair
   

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

    Author: John Oldham
   

Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.

    Author: Kathy Mattea
   

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

    Author: Kevin Mitnick
   

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

    Author: Kurt Russell
   

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

    Author: Michael Johnson
   

I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.

    Author: Michelle Wie
   

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

    Author: Muhammad Ali
   

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

    Author: Murray Walker
   

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

    Author: Orison Swett Marden
   

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

    Author: Orison Swett Marden
   

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

    Author: Owen Hart
   

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

    Author: Owen Hart
   

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

    Author: Patsy Cline
   

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

    Author: Phillips Brooks
   

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

    Author: Pierre Charles Baudelaire
   

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

    Author: Puff Daddy
   

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

    Author: Rand Beers
   

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

    Author: Rick Fox
   

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

    Author: Rio Ferdinand
   

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

    Author: Rob Schneider
   

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

    Author: Robert De Niro
   

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

    Author: Robert Reich
   

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

    Author: Roger Ascham
   

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

    Author: Roger Ascham
   

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

    Author: Roy Haynes
   

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

    Author: Rupert Murdoch
   

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

    Author: Sachin Tendulkar
   

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

    Author: Samuel Butler
   

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

    Author: Samuel Richardson
   

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.

    Author: Sanford I. Weill
   

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

    Author: Sonny Liston
   

Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

    Author: Steve Mariucci
   

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

    Author: Sugar Ray Leonard
   

My heart was beating out of my chest.

    Author: Swoosie Kurtz
   

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

    Author: Tiger Woods
   

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

    Author: Tobey Maguire
   

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

    Author: Tom McMillan
   

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

    Author: Trey Parker
   

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

    Author: Trish Stratus
   

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

    Author: Walter Lippmann
   

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

    Author: Woody Allen
   

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

    Author: Zora Neale Hurston
   

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